I've just read through Avengers vs X-Men (yes, once again, it was on sale on comiXology - I swear, they don't have me on retainer). It's a fun romp - and the omnibus I picked up included the individual "VS" issues which expanded on some of the two-panel fights we saw in the main story, which I enjoyed immensely despite initial disinterest. The "Fun Facts" are what really sell it. But the main thing that was nagging at me all the way through was:
Does Hope Summers even have an official character model?
Seriously. Her uniform is all over the place. Sometimes it's two chevrons, sometimes the lower one is a belt, sometimes it's mid-torso, sometimes that top one is more of a solid triangle. I guess her design includes the rag hood and nobody thought about what was under it?
I dug around and found that this seems to be a fairly constant issue for the girl. Here are some samples, some from AvX, all (I believe) from official sources.
It's possible she just owns a lot of similar outfits.
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Solid triangle, chevron belt |
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Larger triangle, less space between. |
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Two teeny tiny chevrons. Emma Frost would wear this as a bikini. |
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The top chevron here is more of a "V", narrowing towards the point. |
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The "Harley Quinn" - equal spacing all around. |
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The cover to AvX #0, which actually contradicts the art inside. A good, chunky belt chevron and a solid triangle (distorted here by the pose). The top point of this belt is about where the lower point of some of her upper shapes reach down to. |
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The "V" again, with a definite belt chevron. She has a more mature stature here, too, but comic artists are notoriously inconsistent about such things. |
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LAAAAAAAAAAND |
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Fairly modest triangle - which in fairness could be a V, we can't see under the hood, which is largely the problem. Slender, steep chevron belt, with hip diamonds that go alllll the way down |
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Sometimes she has those little snips cut out of the triangle that makes enough of a "feathered" effect for Phoenix |
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That first chevron is right up under her neck and woah wait what is the other one doing all the way up there |
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